This weekend I drove away from my mother and my daughter, and I think there should be a law against that. I drove to Wyoming by myself, to visit my mom, and we had the most wonderful time. She took me to a little place in Lander called The Middle Fork, where I ate the…
When we took the kids to Disneyland for the first time, they were in high school. As we talked about our trip to California, our son was excited about Disneyland, but our daughter acted cool. Disneyland was for little kids, you know. Until we got there, and you should have seen her face on the…
Today I travel back to my one semester of anatomy and physiology, which is a class I took when I was going to be a nurse. Before I came to the conclusion that I was too ditsy to have people’s lives in my hand. Wait, did I give you your meds already? I can’t remember….
He was looking good dressed for church. Jokingly he used the word Adonis and struck a pose. Actually, 23 years into marriage and he’s getting more handsome to me all the time. So I’m afraid that’s what I thought of Saturday night when we sang words from an old hymn, I dare not trust the…
It is an annual agreement with my mother-in-law. She will feed me if I will hand out candy to the over 100 children who will trick-or-treat at her door. Will work for food. So the doorbell rang, and I grabbed the metal bowl filled with everything chocolate. A herd of children was at the door,…
For a few years now, I’ve been teaching a class at church called PLACE, which helps people discover how God has shaped them to be of service in the body of Christ. Last night we started a new, four-week class, and I taught the first session on personality. While everyone took a personality inventory I…
I could see the panic in her eyes the second after she pushed the cart. She could tell it was going to crash into my car, so in one of those slow-mo’s she attempted to catch it, without success. At the same time I was doing hand signals to try to get her to relax….
I spent all day in this beautiful lodge, listening to a professor from Wheaton College speak at our teacher in-service training, but I was taken off guard when he said something that answered a question I had been asking the Lord for a few weeks. My question: Why in the world does God often give…
In 1987, I left Wyoming to go to college in Texas, and it was a great adventure. But now that we’re looking at colleges for that 6’ baby boy of mine, I think leaving town to go to school sounds stupid. Don’t you think he should live at home forever and go to our community…
I was cutting up chicken last night, rolling it in butter and then crushed French’s Onions –one of my favorite baked chicken recipes. As I prepared supper, the face came to my mind again. The face and name of a young man who has not bent his knees to Jesus. The state of his soul…
That preacher man made us do something glorious in church a few weeks ago, but he moved on too quickly, if you ask me. I wanted to shout out, Hold up, my love, can we just soak this in for a minute? In the middle of his sermon he said something like, Raise your hand…
I asked mom for a dust rag, because those little chores were lingering undone in the season of her grief. Oh honey, you don’t have to dust, she said. No one likes to dust. That’s true, I said. So hurry up and give me the rag before I change my mind. I hate dusting and…
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